ANT 2000- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 57 pages long!)
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Theory asserts that we are all the descendants of a single group of females who lived in africa around 200 kya. Queer anthropology marriage determines who is responsible for children, legal document in us/ rite of passage reasons men want children labour source, old age insurance, political support rules of exogamy and endogamy in us regarding marraige. Expected to have sex w partner only (adultery) 2. women"s bodies place her in lower social roles: the previous two give a woman a mental structure different from men that is seen as being closer to nature. Female cultural universe not as close to the anthropological one - anthropology as a whole has a male bias. No simple link between modes of subsistence: hunting and gathering. Mestolithic stone making; microliths with broad spectrum economies origin of state(sumer) Braid wood thought that food production began in fruitful land.
